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Most laptops are now shipping with a NPU for handling these tasks. So it wont be getting computed on your GPU.


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tsimionesculast Thursday at 10:12 PM

That doesn't mean anything, it's just a name change. They're the same kind of unit.

And whatever accelerator you try to put into it, you're not running Gemini3 or GPT-5.1 on your laptop, not in any reasonable time frame.

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